Welcome to the future!

Inspired by all we see ahead, Cultural Acupuncture is a highly curated synthesis of the ideas advancing our future. Intentionally designed to fuel us all with the ideas, actions and strategies that will ignite the boldest and brightest existence possible, Cultural Acupuncture is an integral part of the greater work we do in these three ways…

STRATEGIC STUDIO:

Play Big Inc guides visionary leaders through a rapidly transforming society. We focus on helping C-suite leaders more courageously navigate change and better harness resources to optimize revenues and contribute in more meaningful ways. With a portfolio of more than $30B worth of experience, we do this by applying the big shifts coming toward us in these tangible ways:

Corporate Purpose

Brand Salience

Culture Alignment

Strategic Innovation

KEYNOTE VISION:

THEBIGSHIFT is a tight summary of the 9+ big shifts shaping the future, designed to help organizations and industries better understand how radical changes in technology and culture are weaving the new economy.

It's our pleasure to introduce you to our network of people you need to know; across a range of industries, these people stretch our understanding of what is possible as they actively architect what’s coming next.

The Circular Economy is a future imperative to combat increasing rates of consumption and severely constrained global resources. In a world soon to be of 9 billion consumers actively buying manufactured goods, it is abundantly evident that economies and business who act in a mode of extraction only are not sustainable and will ultimately fail. When you consider that the FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) sector accounts for more than 90% of our agricultural output, and…

Created by Pavlina Tcherneva, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bard College, this chart depicts the sharp rise and decline of the wealthy 10% compared to the 90% working class. Excerpt from a paper she wrote in August 2013, “An examination of average income growth [in the U.S.] during every postwar expansion (from trough to peak) and its distribution between the wealthiest 10% and bottom 90% of households reveals that income growth becomes more inequitably distributed…

Between November 25, 2013 and January 13, 2014, Pew Research Center asked 12,000 experts and members of the public to share their opinions on what they think about robots – good, or bad? Some speculate that the automation of the work force will dramatically impact the types of jobs humans currently occupy, placing a burden on the education system to ensure that future workers are prepared to enter this new landscape. Others think positively that new types of work will emerge…

Whether you’re the World Bank or selling soda, a moral and social imperative is emerging in which corporations are recognizing that using their considerable resources to innovating for good is no longer an option, it’s a necessity.
Our beliefs are supported by London Business School Professor Lynda Gratton, an organizational change and leadership expert with 30 years experience studying corporations, who recently launched a book called “The Key:…

While Millennials are more optimistic than ever about the future, The American Dream has become a relic for most representing a point in time that no longer has relevancy. Rather than possessions and affluence dominating what people really want, in a recent national survey conducted by the Center for a New American Dream, 78% of Americans consider having personal freedom extremely important and only 23% stated achieving wealth as desirable.
When it comes to work and money…

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